ISP Quickline Open New HQ to Support Ultrafast Broadband Rollout
Alternative network provider Quickline, which runs a mix of Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband networks across parts of Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire in England, has today opened its new headquarters in East Yorkshire. The move is said to signal the start of a “huge expansion” for the company.
The operator is currently being supported by a £500m investment from Northleaf Capital Partners, which acquired the company last year and is helping to fuel their future ambition to cover 500,000 UK premises in rural and semi-rural areas with “ultrafast broadband” – via a mix of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and 5G based FWA infrastructure (here).
As it stands, Quickline has already more than doubled the size of its workforce this year to over 130 people, and they’ve got plans to double that again over the coming year. The move comes after the complete transformation of three buildings in Willerby into their new office space.
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Sean Royce, Quickline CEO, said:
“This is such an essential and positive move for us and we’re delighted to finally be in. Having grown so quickly, we simply didn’t fit in our previous offices anymore. Albion Mills is a much bigger space, is easy to get to and allows us to manage our next recruitment phase more easily. But it is much more than this. It is about investing in our people, making them proud to work for Quickline. We want to make this a great place to work and for our people to want to be together.
Since the pandemic, we have developed a flexible working approach and we want people to continue to work from home, but also to have a dedicated workspace where they can collaborate, create solutions together, build strong relationships and have some fun with their colleagues. Indeed, for many of our people, it will be the first time they have met their colleagues in person.”
All of this is good to hear, but there’s still a lack of information with respect to the provider’s future rollout plan.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook and Linkedin.
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Good for them! Congratulations!
What good will it do? Broadband is pretty cheap now and to be honest if people are struggling to pay energy bills and food, then broadband will be or should be the first thing to go, along with their Sky TV
Sorry, wrong place. 🙂
Wish they would announce more detail on a rollout plan. They’ve been doing sponsored ads on social media for rolling out to a village just up the road from me with a population of 300 which is frustrating as the town has an exchange that serves the village up the road yet the only FTTP here is all outside of the town itself. 1500 premises served locally from the exchange and currently 200 premises in 2 different rural areas can order an Openreach product.
Such a mess around here
Have you tried to contact then ?
They often work on a demand led basis.. so if there are people in your village who want it then worth contacting them.
Yes they and 3 altnets and 1 other ISP have been contacted as they all operating within a 20 mile radius. None of them seem interested to engage. When the first altnet was building nearby we got lots of people to register on their interest. Now the others have sprung up looking to overbuild against each other getting all those people to register on these different providers isnt easy.
Funny but our area in North Lincolnshire has not being upgraded by Quickline despite earlier funding from local councils for wireless infrastructure, I have after 5 years with Quickline after they bought out Linpop who I was with for two years before that, and now the Northleaf investment, cancelled my contract and I have moved over to EE who give me 5 times faster download speed at a far better price per month, so WLDC have a look as to what has happened to that funding